Europe's share of the blame for the war in Iraq

The daily El País comments on the inquiries into the justifications given for the Iraq war in the Netherlands and the UK and calls for further investigation in Spain and Portugal: "The inquiries in the Netherlands and the UK are aimed at clarifying not just a scandal that affected previous governments but also what posed a serious threat to peace and international security and is now the source of many current problems; something that to be carried through made a mockery of the democratic procedures and internal controls. It won't be possible to get the full picture of what happened until other people responsible for one of the most useless and ill-conceived conflicts in many decades explain what they did and why they did it, like former head of government [José Maria] Aznar or the current president of the European Commission [José Manuel] Durão Barroso."

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